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Celtics Re-Sign Coach Joe Mazzulla to Contract Extension Amid Historic Start to Career

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Commerce Department Threatens to Take Ownership of Harvard Patents

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit with the state Supreme Court on Aug. 8, asking the court to declare the House seats of 13 Texas Democrats vacant due to “unlawful absences.” Paxton filed the lawsuit shortly after Democrats broke a deadline set by Texas Speaker of the House Dustin Burrows to return to the Capitol on Friday. “I have asked the Texas Supreme Court to declare what has been clear from the beginning: that the runaway members have officially vacated their offices in the Texas House,” Paxton said in a press release. Story continues below advertisement The lawsuit is aimed at 13 Democratic members who stated publicly they refused to return, “confirming in their own words the very grounds for this legal action,” according to the press release. Those named include the following Texas Democratic representatives: Ron Reynolds, Vikki Goodwin, Gina Hinojosa, James Talarico, Lulu Flores, Mihaela Plesa, Suleman Lalani, Chris Turner, Ana-Maria Ramos, Jessica Gonzalez, John Bucy III, Christina Morales, and Gene Wu, the Texas House Democratic Caucus chairman. Paxton said Texas law gives him the authority to represent the state in “quo warranto actions” and to appear before the Texas Supreme Court in matters of direct state interest. Related Stories Texas Governor Aims to Remove Absent Democrats With Emergency Petition to State High Court The Epoch Times Texas Holds Legislative Session After Democrat Lawmakers Depart The Epoch Times More than 50 state Democrats fled the state to derail Republican plans to redraw the state’s Congressional map before the midterm elections. “When members of the legislature disregard arrest warrants, refuse to perform their duties, and announce that they intend to prevent the legislature from exercising its constitutional responsibilities, they have, through words and conduct, demonstrated an intent to relinquish and abandon their offices,” the lawsuit states. Such legal action is rarely used. Warranto petitions are typically used to challenge a person’s right to hold a public or corporate office or to revoke a corporation’s charter. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott also filed a warranto petition on Aug. 5 with the state’s high court, naming Wu as a respondent. The governor’s lawsuit alleged that House Democrats abdicated their official duties by refusing to show up for work. Story continues below advertisement The state justices gave Wu until Friday to respond. Paxton and Burrows took steps to enforce arrest warrants in other states, while the attorney general also began investigations into Powered by People and Texas Majority PAC for allegedly “operating an illegal financial influence scheme to bribe Democrats into breaking quorum.” Also, the fleeing Democrats potentially face felony charges and fines of $500 per day that must be paid from their own funds. The fight between Democrats and Republicans started when the Department of Justice (DOJ) sent Abbott a letter on July 7 raising concerns that four congressional districts in the Houston and Dallas areas were unconstitutional because of “racial gerrymandering.” Current boundaries run afoul of the Voting Rights Act by relying on racial demographics to group minority voters into “coalition districts,” where no single racial group forms a majority, according to the DOJ. Abbott added redrawing the congressional map onto the special session agenda, prompting the Democrats to purposefully break quorum and grind the legislature to a halt.

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Texas AG Files Suit With State Supreme Court to Declare Seats of 13 Absent Democrats Vacant

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Former White House National Security Adviser John Bolton Says He Helped Plan Attempted Foreign Coups

By Katabella Roberts John Bolton, the former White House national security adviser for the Trump administration, has claimed that he previously helped plan attempted coups of foreign ...

‘Very Unfavorable’ Political Scenario Appears to Be Taking Shape for Democrats

By Jack Phillips An unfavorable midterm election scenario is taking shape for Democrats as inflation and gas prices remain exceptionally high as some left-wing news outlets appear ...

Gold Prices Hits Lowest Level in Nine Months

By Naveen Athrappully Gold prices weakened in Tuesday trade to its lowest level in nine months, while the dollar strengthened ahead of the crucial U.S. inflation ...

‘Ironic’ for Biden to Beg Saudi Arabia for Oil but Label American Producers ‘Criminals’: Ex-GOP Senator

By Tom Ozimek Former Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) has called President Joe Biden’s upcoming visit to Saudi Arabia “ironic” in light of the president’s sharp criticism ...

Landmark Supreme Court Ruling Ushers in New Era of Gun Debate

By Cara Ding In modern U.S. history, you can count on one hand the number of Supreme Court cases that clarify what the Second Amendment really means. ...

Biden Says He’s ‘Determined’ to Renew ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban

By Jack Phillips President Joe Biden on Monday said he wants to implement a new ban on “assault weapons” as he touted the Safer Communities Act at ...

Top GOP Senator: Not Enough Democrats’ Can Help Liz Cheney Win Primary

By Jack Phillips A top Republican senator has proclaimed there are “not enough Democrats” to help Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) win the GOP primary in August. Sen. John ...

Another White House Official Is Leaving the Biden Administration

By Jack Phillips White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield is stepping down from her position, according to the Biden administration’s chief of staff. In a statement released on July 6, ...

Republicans Demand Biden Administration Apologize to Border Patrol Agents

By Frank Fang Republican lawmakers and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton are calling on the Biden administration to apologize to Border Patrol agents, after a ...

Biden’s Selling of Oil From Reserve to Hunter Biden-Tied Chinese Firm ‘Impeachable’

By Eva Fu The Biden administration’s move to sell nearly 1 million barrels of oil reserves to China “defies all common sense” and is benefiting U.S. adversaries at the ...

Trump Calls for Overturning Wisconsin Results in 2020 Election to the ‘Actual Winner’

By Gary Bai Former U.S. President Donald Trump is calling for the 2020 Wisconsin election results to be overturned a day after the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled ...

Former Federal ‘Informant’ Warned of Antifa, BLM Infiltrators at Capitol on Jan. 6

By Joseph M. Hanneman The man whose posting on social media warned authorities that agent provocateurs from Antifa and Black Lives Matter would be at the ...